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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: amanda21 on August 02, 2006, 16:12:49

Title: Is this tomato blight?
Post by: amanda21 on August 02, 2006, 16:12:49
 :-\  Picked some toms from the allotment today and found a few with these sort of marks on them - is this blight? 

Title: Re: Is this tomato blight?
Post by: Tinkie_Bear on August 03, 2006, 01:19:58
Don't know what's wrong with your toms but I must say what fantastic nails you have, mine break with all the scrabbeling round in the dirt I do!

Helen
Title: Re: Is this tomato blight?
Post by: tim on August 03, 2006, 05:56:09
Snap - I almost remarked yesterday that they didn't look like a lotterer's nails!
Title: Re: Is this tomato blight?
Post by: amanda21 on August 03, 2006, 09:19:16
 :)  Thank you for the comments about my nails but they only look like that because I've been away on holiday!  They are far too long for gardening in now so will have to be sacrificed to the file soon!   :(   

But what about my tomatoes??
Title: Re: Is this tomato blight?
Post by: Grant on August 03, 2006, 09:53:04
Is there any sign that the leaves are turning blackish.
Title: Re: Is this tomato blight?
Post by: amanda21 on August 03, 2006, 09:58:48
Grant - it's a bit difficult to tell as the leaves have been blackish and wrinkled since I put them in and the frost got them!  I was surprised they recovered but are all fruiting like mad. 
Title: Re: Is this tomato blight?
Post by: Merry Tiller on August 03, 2006, 10:07:13
Need more evidence ;)
Title: Re: Is this tomato blight?
Post by: RobC on August 03, 2006, 15:03:51
my guess is no - fruits affected are normally more wrinkly and brown.  It is normally the whole fruit affected and every fruit on the truss.
Title: Re: Is this tomato blight?
Post by: amanda21 on August 04, 2006, 08:19:32
Having looked it up I'm worried it might be mosaic virus - has anyone had dealings with this?   ???
Title: Re: Is this tomato blight?
Post by: OllieC on August 04, 2006, 08:30:22
As has been said, need more info...

Can you show a piccie of the plants, and also more fruit? Also, we need to know if this is just skin-deep or if it's affected the flesh.

When did signs first appear & is it spreading?

What %age of them is affected?

Where are you growing them? (in or out?)

A description of taste & a cross-section photo (going through the brown bit) would help too.